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I don’t see anyone mentioning Fooyin, which seems to be an attempt at being an open source clone of Foobar2000, right down to its plug in system.

Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren’t using it? Do they just not know about it? Its missing a few features here and there, but the UI is so 1 to 1 that I can’t imagine trying to use anything else as a replacement.

I was using Windows 10 LTSC for a bit before Home/Pro editions reached EoL. My past experiences with Linux were all such a significant addition of frustration; I couldn’t justify switching to Linux.

After a string of back-to-back hardware failures, I’m back to using a 10+ year old desktop I built. Ended up trying trying Fedora 42 with KDE and suddenly had none of the issues I had with past Linux attempts. My three biggest complaints before about Linux had been random Bluetooth device incompatibility, Nvidia support being trash, and most Steam games requiring extra commands and constant troubleshooting to get running decently.

I feel like a lot of those issues were from me starting with Arch derivatives on niche laptop hardware that was already beginning to fail. My experience with Fedora has been fantastic. My biggest problems now have been: -KDE discover store is really inconsistent with its packages. I would not expect the average Windows “user”(bought a PC and that’s what it came with) to bother understanding the difference between a flatpak and a native package, and would get really annoyed when stuff is out of date or mis-configured out of the box. I had a better experience using a GUI in Arch with the AUR to install software, ironically enough. -There are a few things, ie Nvidia drivers, non-free codecs, non flatpak Steam, that have inconsistent community documentation on how to install them. These become immediately bad first impressions on people switching from Windows, and I think its important that they are clear to install properly as possible.

Other than that, Fedora is stable and runs great. I’m using a Nvidia GPU and have no issues with it(this time, at least…). A lot of my software was already open source, but I run a few Windows applications, besides Steam games, with Wine; rarely do I have to do any extra configuration. KDE Plasma as a desktop environment has given me the customization and control out of the box that I have been missing from Windows for over a decade, while Fedora has some sane defaults for it that make it accessible to Windows users expecting something a bit more familiar.

There’s always a weird quirk here and there, but I have had my fair share of troubleshooting on Windows before as well. I feel like Linux as a home PC OS is mature enough that people who don’t do much on the PC anyway could find their way around it, while it’s still going to be an annoying learning curve for people who see end user software as a hobby. Entirely usable though.

Obligatory I don’t play games with anti cheat and I don’t use streaming services with DRM. I have a few games with Denuvo, and haven’t had any problems arise that needed me to switch Proton versions that end up triggering install lock outs.

Pretty sure they meant that LLM companies can easily scrape Lemmy and train models off of the posts without any authorization. Its freely, publicly accessible(until, you know, they end up DDoSing these poorly funded instances out of existence by scraping them).

Your info is a bit out of date. Epic already sold off Bandcamp back in 2023 during layoffs. Its owned by Songtradr now, who I personally know nothing about.

Usually how these verification systems work is; if you cant verify, you don’t get to chat. Its supposed to lock out children from communicating with strangers online. There is no reason to verify children if the only people allowed to talk are verified adults.

I don’t know what clown shoes system Roblox has decided to go with. Again, the article doesn’t seem to specify why they are collecting children data. If the idea is to age gate chat between player demographics, so that kids can talk to other kids… that seems like a wasted effort. Children are quite capable of abusing each other without any adults around. Age verification is not an alternative to moderation.

And that’s without getting into “AI age verification is easily fooled”; kids and predators alike are going to get around the system if they bother looking into how to do so. Just as all the generations before them were constantly circumventing lazy tech solutions for blocking content when children are involved.

Age verification is already dystopian, but why do kids need to verify their age??? Wouldn’t the logical assumption be that if you can’t verify as an adult, that they would be underage and therefore be chat limited? What purpose is there to having photo verification that someone is a child? I figured it was a poorly written headline, but the article does seem to suggest they are pointlessly collecting data on children with no explanation.

Also don’t appreciate this article acting like corporate monopolies should be more trusted with the surveillance state. It’s crazy seeing all news sites manufacturing consent for this shit so openly.

Checked the authors website; watermark made searching for it easy. They have been using this consistent art style since 2021. They have been posting art to Twitter since 2011.

Don’t know what in this comic you could possibly see as a give away for AI use.

Its usually games, though its generally “whatever we are doing at the time” with trusted, long distance friends. Its not something I would want to share over publicly accessible URLs. And it almost always involve varied and fast moving visuals, so basic software encoding is not acceptable.

I have tried jitsi before. It does not use hardware accelerated codecs or provide audio isolation for applications. I can’t imagine using its screen share for anything more demanding than a slide show presentation.

Do you have any guides or resources to using OBS as a screen share tool? I tried in the past to use it as a platform agnostic solution, but ran into a lot of problems that would prevent my friends from using it. Virtual cam didn’t provide audio, and using input mixing to combine mic + isolated application audio(already a multi step process in OBS per app) involves a lot of tech knowledge that is beyond what the end-user demographic of discord is willing to put up with. I also tried using vdo ninja as a P2P shareable link for video group conferences, but couldn’t get the webRTC links to work with direct streams from OBS.

I despise Discord and have been having success with moving close friends to more private IM apps, but so far, nothing has come close to the effortless ease of discord group calls with screen sharing. Most competing social screen share apps don’t even have audio support, and the ones that do either don’t have audio isolation, or their implementation of it is broken.

I don’t know why you are so insistent that everyone who mentions Windows is using a online account, but you actually do not need a google account to use an android device in most cases. I have been using android phones with no logged in account, with side loaded app stores and independent apps for years. Maybe the mainline flagship devices enforce it; I haven’t had that problem personally.

Google would really like to crack down on installing software without their permission, and they still track every bit of information they can with the Google Play API even without an account, but I digress. I haven’t had a google account in several years. Or a Microsoft account either, for that matter.

On top of using include mode, be sure to go into Qbittorrents settings and bind the network interface to the VPN. That will ensure that even if the VPN is disconnected or turned off for some reason, Qbit will not attempt to communicate on clear net. Some people would rely on Proton VPNs kill switch feature for that, but that is not available with split tunneling.

Another comment told me to run lsusb -v and the ethernet ports showed up there. Would lsusb -t provide something more relevant? Also, to be clear, the docks work fine in Linux. I am concerned about the ethernet not showing up in Windows without booting Linux first.

I’m not sure if this answers your question, but I have tried using additional USB ethernet adapters plugged into the dock. They have the same issue; unless its less than a 1Gb interface, they won’t show up in Windows without booting Linux first. This applies to anything going through the USB C 3.2 port it seems like.

I have the older 6800 model of the WM2. I haven’t heard from anyone else with that model in the community GPD discord with this issue, but frankly I don’t get much of a response in there in general. Really wish the community didn’t insist on using an IM chat for troubleshooting AND general discussion…

Ill be a bit busy today, so I won’t be able to get into Linux till tomorrow. What exactly did you want me to do with boltctrl? And are you sure its relevant to the Falwedi dock? I’m not using the USB4 port for the dock usually because I have to leave that open for my eGPU, and the Falwedi hub isn’t a USB4/Thunderbolt device anyway.

If I boot into Linux first, and then restart to boot Windows, the ethernet adapter will show up in device manager, yes. I am currently using the Falwedi USB hub after booting into Linux first this morning. Under device manager, it is listed as “Realtek USB GbE Family Controller”. Ill go ahead and toggle/disable the setting to “Allow the computer to turn off device to save power”, but I can’t imagine it will make a difference. Without booting Linux first, plugging in the USB hub will recognize all the other ports on it except the ethernet port. I can’t tell that anything else is reported differently on plugging it in; just that the ethernet port never shows up.

The Falwedi still has the issue with the 3.2 port on the WM2 where I have to boot Linux first to get the ethernet port working in Windows. Otherwise, yes, it works everywhere.

The Kensington issue is likely not related to this ethernet problem. The ethernet port and the dock overall works as expected on the TB3 of the WM1. The ethernet port of the Kensington Dock does not work on the 3.2 port of the WM2 without booting into Linux first. The Kensington dock does not work at all on the USB4 of the WM2 or the 3.0 of the WM1.

And should clarify that I do not have to do anything in Linux to get the Ethernet port working. It functions plug-n-play with no performance issues. The ethernet issue only comes up if I boot into Windows first, without involving Linux.

I have one other computer that has USB C ports to test with, a GPD Win Max 1. It has Intel/Thunderbolt 3 chipset instead of AMD USB4. I also have two separate docks to test with; a bootleg/generic Falwedi USB 3 hub, and a Kensington SD5800T TB4/USB4 dock.

The Falwedi hub has a working ethernet port if I plug it into the USB4 port on the Win Max 2. The ethernet port also works on the Win Max 1 on either its TB3 port or its additional USBC 3.0 port. The Kensington dock for some reason only works on the 3.2 port of the WM2 and the TB3 port of the WM1; the entire dock isn’t recognized at all on the other ports. I find it strange that it only works on the ports I first used it with on each device. I don’t know why it wont work on the WM2 USB4 port. But more to the point, the ethernet port does work on the TB3 of the WM1. This ethernet issue is only present on the WM2.

lsusb -v reports these chipsets for the ethernet interfaces. Please tell me if I am reporting the wrong thing; I don’t use linux that often.

Falwedi: Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0bda:5401 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL 8153 USB 3.0 hub with gigabit ethernet

Kensington: Bus 008 Device 008: ID 0bda:8156 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN

I am on the latest BIOS for the GPD Win Max 2. Judging off of their email response, I won’t keep my hopes up that they will release anything to fix this. There were problems with video out on USB C hubs that they fixed with a BIOS update, but that was much earlier in the handhelds life span. They haven’t done any BIOS updates since then.

The hub/docks in question do not have any drivers on the manufacturers website. They are advertised as plug and play. I have been occasionally updating my AMD chipset drivers as they come, but so far the updates have made no difference for this issue.

Ironically, I did have to disable XHCI on one of the ports to fix a issue with the dual SD card reader on this device, reducing it to USB 2.0 speeds. I toggled that setting back to see if it had any effect on the ethernet port, but no dice. I did find a toggle for xHCI handoff enable/disable; toggling it did not seem to have an effect on the ethernet port either.